I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay!
Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet. . . When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.
I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.